Horrible Mechanical Failures: Looks Like the Tin Man's Undies After Taco Tuesday

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BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

Vanagoon posted:

^ from working at FedEx I know that type of container is called an LD3, if that helps any. Stacking them with freight is a bitch unless you're three feet tall.

The over-arching term for the air freight containers is "ULD - Unit Load Device". I prefer the AMJ's myself. Nice big box.

LD3s are't too heavy like mabye 3-400lbs. I think the tare weight on a J is like 6-700lbs and a fully loaded one can weigh over 2 tons

edit: oh hello fellow hub slave

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BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

Modena AL posted:

I always hated it when a driver would leave his pins down and dump a fully loaded AMJ into the street across from my input line. Also, pulling a full string of AMJ's through the snow never works.

One night a driver took a turn a little too close when coming inside, hit a bollard with the corner of the first pallet and ripped the hitch out of the tug.

Our boss came out like "BOY YOU BETTER RUN AWAY BEFORE THEY FIRE YOUR rear end FOR ALMOST DROPPING A CAN". Tug driver booked it out of there and we stole the cans for our flight haha.

Apparently in the good ol' days, the tugs had absolutely no governers on them and the drivers would get them up to like 80-90mph

# ¿ Nov 12, 2009 05:08

BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

Modena AL posted:

Ah, yes, I remember it was called dropping a can now. Been quite a while. I dropped a few in my days. I always remembered them telling me that you were pretty much escorted out if you dropped one but never saw anything happen to anyone.

I did see a guy drop one off of the loaders by the plane. From the second deck of a DC10. He climbed down, threw his badge at his manager, and started walking home.

My roommate saw a guy make the tiniest little aircraft strike with a belt loader. Everything had to come off the plane. ugh.

Pretty crazy considering those things fuselages are basically held together by speedtape.

The list of instantly fire-able offences at the hub are:
1.Stepping across the red line
2.Aircraft Strikes
3.Dropping a can
4.Fistfights
5.Theft

# ¿ Nov 13, 2009 00:43

BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

darknrgy posted:

Speaking of tugs, TUGBOATS have an excellent failure mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEfUblSDzww

"Bro, we should get our kayaks."

no, you should call the coast guard or for gently caress sake at least the harbormaster

# ¿ Nov 13, 2009 10:09

BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

Vanagoon posted:

Speaking of people getting fired: Is anyone here who saw them set a 727 down on it's rear end end some years ago? I dont remember exactly what date, or even year, it was. This was at the MEM hub. The story I heard was the maintenance tards took the tailstand/aft stairs up/away with some cans still in the back of the plane (??) and down she went. I have no idea how to google for this but I saw it with my own eyes, a 727 squatting it's back end down against the ground with the nose up in the air. This happened mid 2000's.

I was working in the old hub and the plane in question was parked up close to the "auto hub" on the other side of the ramp - Didn't get a thing done that night, too busy gawking. Did they keep it out of the news completely?

I don't remember hearing anything about this, but its really not surprising.

Here are some videos of horrible mechanical failures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHZqcKj7jNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZWy_fASSiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOFIt9iw1Fs

lol china

# ¿ Nov 13, 2009 18:13

BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

LOO posted:

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

haha do they have a carfax type service for aircraft?

"HAWKER 800 LOW FLIGHT HOURS NO MISSILE DAMAGE L@@K!!!"

# ¿ Nov 14, 2009 00:55

BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

Prelude Gundam posted:

"I wanted to jump the statue, i saw it on tv"

Reminds me of some Ford Expedition commercials, one where the truck was literally flying through clouds and the other where it demonstrates braking ability by not skidding off the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Both had the "DRAMATIZATION DO NOT ATTEMPT" warnings at the bottom in huge block letters. Legal CYA sure, but you cant help but think someone out there somewhere would have watched that and thought "HOLY poo poo THAT CAR FLYS" or "IF IM EVER ON THE FLIGHT DECK OF AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER IM TOTALLY DOING THAT"

# ¿ Nov 20, 2009 03:09

BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

kastein posted:

Speaking of jagged chunks of rust...

Here's a very hosed subaru wheel bearing. It was LOUD at around 43mph, sounded like a bandsaw going through sheet aluminum

I bet the one I just took to the shop sounds similar to this when it gets pulled out. It was making a sound that I would compare to being inside a flying B17.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2014 07:55

BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

A few years ago I helped a friend with an 04 Malibu try to check the level on his ATF, only to find there's no way to do so. Apparently GM felt that making sure you have enough transmission fluid wasn't a job you should be concerning yourself with. It's somewhat frustrating when conventional car wisdom fails so spectacularly.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2015 16:31

BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

One of the state maintenance trucks when I worked in Fairbanks kept havi g issues overheating and DOT couldn't figure out why. It was fine on super cold days but anything above zero or towing / hauling equipment would make all the temps skyrocket. They ended up replacing all sorts of poo poo including the transmission before they finally found thr culprit.

Ib the winter there, people cover their grills and radiators with vinyl bras or simply tape cardboard over them. The truck was owned by another state agency and whoever it was had slipped a piece of cardboard between the radiator and oil cooler that was wedged in so tight nobody could see it.

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 14:31

BIG HORNY COW: Apr 11, 2003

I got to ride newer some 4-stroke Yamaha that a friend had a few winters ago. I had to let off when it got to 90 because I was running out of room but it probably wasn't even near the max speed.

That wasn't even a performance model or anything just a mid-range one. They get scary fast.

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